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Adventurous investment trust portfolio

Each year, Money Observer introduces its investment trust tips for the year ahead. Our selections are grouped into ‘adventurous’ and ‘conservative’ selections.

We monitor performance every three months, and suggest potential changes, to each of the portfolios. The adventurous selections below are picked from eight of the most popular investment trust sectors, plus a specialist selection.

These adventurous choices are designed for investors who are confident that markets will offer strong gains in the year ahead.

Most of the choices have concentrated portfolios and/or have gearing. That means they may fall disproportionately should markets falter. However, they have also demonstrated their ability to recover strongly on the rebound.

At the start date of this portfolio on 1 August 2014, we invested a notional £1,000 in each choice at the mid price. Any subsequent changes are made using the valuation for the trust that is replaced.

Trading charges have not been factored into the performance of this portfolio.

You can view the most recent adventurous investment trust portfolio update here.

% total return after:

Conservative choices

3 months (%)

6 months (%)

1 year (%)

BlackRock Throgmorton

11.9

31.5

3.1

Capital Gearing

3.0

5.3

6.9

Edinburgh Dragon

6.3

13.3

13.4

F&C*

1.7

11.7

2.8

Fidelity European Values (2)

12.8

24.5

15.3

JPMorgan Japanese

10.6

17.7

-4.8

Standard Life Private Equity

-3.1

6.7

7.9

Troy Income & Growth (1)

3.2

12.9

8.2

Utilico Emerging Markets

12.4

20.7

27.3

Adventurous choices

Allianz Technology

7.6

34.9

15.5

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon

1.8

11.8

-6.2

JPMorgan Emerging Markets

9.4

17.9

21.5

Monks

9.6

26.5

9.5

Montanaro European Smaller Companies (3)

20.5

31.2

19.0

Pantheon International*

1.2

8.4

5.2

Rights & Issues*

-0.7

3.1

-10.1

Schroder AsiaPacific

2.7

14.3

3.3

Temple Bar (4)

-2.2

13.4

-0.3

Index benchmarks

FTSE All Share index

3.3

13.0

0.6

FTSE World ex UK index

6.7

16.9

11.0

Notes: * Holding is replaced in this annual review. (1). Replaced Lowland as adventurous choice in February issue quarterly review; swapped with Temple Bar as conservative choice in May review. (2) Replaced Henderson European Focus in February review. (3) Replaced JPMorgan European Smaller Companies in May review. (4) See note 2. Portfolio inception date is 1 August 2014. Source: Data from FE analytics as at 1 July 2019. Portfolio inception date is 1 August 2014.

The trust tips portfolio

% total return (income reinvested) after:

3 mths

6 mths

1 yr

3 yrs

Since launch*

Conservative portfolio

6.4

16.5

8.4

50.4

71.3

Adventurous portfolio

5.4

16.8

4.2

64.5

96.4

Index benchmarks

FTSE All-Share index

3.3

13.0

0.6

29.5

37.2

FTSE World ex UK index

6.7

16.9

11.0

49.8

92.1

Notes: Portfolio inception date is 1 August 2014.Source: Data from FE analytics as at 1 July 2019.